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Rachel is weeping for her child: In Hersh’s grieving mother, we see our matriarch

Today’s parallels with ancient Jewish trauma are overwhelming — and even the Bible falls short, a rabbi writes.

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Rabbi

For rabbis writing High Holiday sermons during the Israel-Hamas war, procrastination pays off

“Being a rabbi is being able to pivot and to give meaning and significance and the grounding of Torah to current events,” said Rabbi Nicole Guzik of Sinai Temple in Los Angeles.

After long legal fight, man from Ugandan Jewish community is approved for Israeli citizenship

‘I cannot describe how I feel at this moment after being approved as an Israeli,’ Kibita said in a statement.

I’m a traveling mohel. My colleague’s unprecedented arrest in Ireland has shaken me to my core.

Yitz Twersky

Meet the New Yorker tracing the 300-year history of the Twersky rabbinical dynasty, from Chernobyl to the Bronx

Sarah Silverman in Greenland.

In remote Greenland, a NYC yeshiva kid becomes an ‘Arctic citizen’

For the first Tisha B’Av after Oct. 7, new liturgy and traditions mourn a fresh tragedy

Doug Emhoff installed mezuzahs at the Vice President’s Residence. What happens to them when he moves out, or up?

Isaiah Rothstein, Orthodox rabbi focused on diversity and inclusion, takes the helm at Greenpoint Shul

Why some synagogues are screening ‘Legend of Destruction,’ a 2021 film about the Second Temple, on Tisha B’Av this year

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